Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-10-22
LIFE IN MIDSUMMER.
Sea Bathing at Home-Need Of Com
paniouship-Ths Allspice of Life.

Sea Bathing at Home-Need Of Com
panionship-The Allspice of Life.
Well, having got the women and the
children in the country, what is the best
thing for the man to dor
To the man who is able to send his wife
and children to the country, the convent
ences Of bathing are ordinarily accessible.
Let him take a bottle Of good size and put
into 1t an ounce of camphor, one Of am
mOnia and a cup OF sea salt. There are
W ways of getting sea salt. You can go
to the druggist and pay "a for 100 pounds,
or you can go to the butchers and buy the
same thing at forty cents a bushel, the
only difference between the purchases be
ing that the druggist sends it home in q
nice, pretty box, while the butcher very
likely would send il down in a bag.
However, I'LL the hottie with hot water,
Jet it stand until it cools, buy a fair sized
sponge. When you get up in the morning
put in a pint of water, half a cupful of
this %concoction, well shaken, and sponge
yourself thoroughly, n you will be
amazed to see what q dirty creature you
are. l know a man about my size who
went the other day to a Turkish bath, was
rubbed and scrubbed and turned out with
apparent neatness, if not dispatch. On
retiring an hour later he sponged himself
with my eau sedatif, and when he got
through the water was blacker than his
boot. The ammonia cleanses the skin, the
camphor strengthens the nerves and the
sea salt freshens you up generally. AS
hearty a breakfast as can be enjoyably
eaten should be taken, and iced water very
sparingly INDUCED in. Then 60 to work.
Take a lunch.
No matter how light, put something in
your stomach. Avoid all Of
spirituous drink, then go to work again.
Then ZONES the question of dinner or sup
per, as your habit may be, and Of the
evening.
New York is a famous resort.
There is no question about it. You can
get for a comparatively small SUN TO any
one of a dozen places in from half m hour
to an hour. Now whether the idea be to
leave the town for Coney Island or to stay
az home, the best plan is to go home, take
a sponge eau sedatif bath, change your
clothing and then either eat your meal at
home, or go down the bay for an outing,
What is sauce for the goose Is sauce for
the gander, and what applies to New York
is equally good for other large cities.
Always have a companion.
don't know how it is with you, but !
find the best companionship, very often, is
myself. He must be a cross grained
creature who can't get along with him
self. If you can't afford to take any one
with you, go alone, but try to find some
congenial friend, male or female as the
case may be, with whom you can talk
without argument, whose presence will
be a pleasure, whose example will lead
you into no entangling alliance or I'M
pleasant predicament. Go home early.
Go through the eau sedatif arrangement.
Wash your face thoroughly. Brush back
your hair, and above all things 60 to bed
good natured.
Good nature is the allspice of life.
Good naturcd men bear trouble more
easily than their fellows, and what is true
Of men is equally provable in women.
Cross grained people are never happy.
Surly dogs may not bite, but they are not
pleasant company. Ill temper is certain
TO eXaggcratc all your faults, TO unnerve
your physique and to send you disconso-
late through the day and keep you wake
full through the night. 1t is possible even
in such weather as we have been cursed
with this year for good natured people to
exist in comfort. 1t is n mental, physical,
moral in~lpossibility for i'll natured people
to exist in comfort in any weather, what
ever may be the temperature.
Above all don't drink. And this applies
quite as much to ice drinks as TO spirit
uous liquors Joe Howard in Detroit
Free Press.